The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

As!hasa (nt.) [a + s!hasa] absence of violence, meekness, peaceableness D iii.147 (as!hase rata fond of
peace); acc. as adv. as!hasa' without violence, not arbitrarily J iii.319; instr. as!hasena id. J vi.280; Dh 257
(= amus!v!dena DhA iii.382).
Asi
Asi [Vedic asi, Av. a'h( Lat. ensis] a sword, a large knife D i.77 (= DA i.222); M ii.99; A i.48 = (asin!
s"sa' chindante); iv.97 (asin! hanti att!na'); J iv.118 (asi sunisito), 184; v.45 (here meaning "sickle"), 475
(asiñ ca me maññasi, probably faulty for either "!siñ ca me" or "!siñcam me"); Vism 201 (ñ!*âsi the sword
of knowledge); PvA 253 (asin! paha&a). -- camma sword & shield Vin ii.192; A iii.93; J vi.449. -- tharu the
hilt of a sword DhA iv.66. -- nakha having nails like swords Pgdp 29. -- patta having sword -- like leaves,
with swords (knives) for leaves (of the sword -- leaf -- wood in Niraya, a late feature in the descriptions of
Purgatory in Indian speculative Theology, see e. g. M!rk -- a*.eyapur!*a xii.24 sq.; Mhbh!rata xii.321;
Manu iv.90; xii. 75; Scherman, Visionsliteratur pp. 23 sq.) J vi.250 (˚niraya); PvA 221 (˚vana); Sdhp 194. -
- p!sa having swords for snares (a class of deities) Miln 191. -- m!la ( -- kamma) sword -- garland ( --
torture) J iii.178 (+s"sa' chind!peti); D!vs iii.35. Preferable to interpretation "sword -- dirt", see m!la
(m!l!). -- lakkhana "swordsign", i.e. (fortune -- telling from) marks or a sword D i.9; J i.455. -- loma
having swords for hair S ii.257, cp. Vin iii.106. -- s(na slaughter -- house (so also B.Sk. asis(n! Divy 10,
15; see further detail under "k!ma" similes) Vin ii.26; M i.130, 143; A iii.97. -- s(la a swordblade Th 2,
488 (expld. at ThA 287 by adhiku&&anatthena, i.e. with reference to the executioner's block, cp. also
sattis(la).
Asika
Asika (adj.) ( -- ˚) [asi + ka] having a sword, with a sword in phrase ukkhitt!asika with drawn sword, M
i.377; J i.393.
Asita
Asita1 [Sk. a$ita, pp. of *asati, Sk. a$n!ti] having eaten, eating; (nt.) that which is eaten or enjoyed, food M
i.57; A iii.30, 32 (˚p"ta -- kh!yita etc.); PvA 25 (id.); J vi.555 ˚(!sana having enjoyed one's food, satisfied).
Cp. !sita1.
Asita
Asita2 (adj.) [a + sita pp. of *$ri, Sk. a$rita] not clinging to, unattached, independent, free (from wrong
desires) D ii.261 (˚âtiga); M i.386; Th 1, 38, 1242 (see Mrs Rh. D. in Brethren 404 note 2); J ii.247; It 97;
Sn 251, 519, 593, 686 (Asitavhaya, called the Asita i.e. the Unattached; cp. SnA 487), 698 (id.), 717, 957,
1065 (cp. Nd2 111 & nissaya).
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Asita
Asita3 (adj.) [Sk. asita; Idg. *!s, cp. Lat. !reo to be dry, i. e. burnt up; Gr. a)/zw to dry; orig. meaning burnt,
hence of burnt, i. e. black colour (of ashes)] black -- blue, black M ii.180 (˚vy!bhang"); A iii.5 (id.); Th 2,
480 (= indan"la ThA 286); J iii.419 (˚âpangin black -- eyed); v. 302; D!vs i.45.
Asita
Asita4 (m. nt.) [fr. asi] a sickle J iii.129; v 46.